(from 'a wilderness')
in the middle of the world's darkest and most solitary wilderness,
I am just standing still alone.
I cannot sink down.
I have to keep looking
for the light, which is invisible.
as the frigid wind blows,
I tore all the clothes
I was wearing to shreds.
I couldn't get over it without shivering
and feeling the cold more
and more severely.
(from "Moths") rainy late night, a bright glass door of the mall, the place of ghostly large, achromatic colored moths they always whisper under their breaths you beware of those who crush the eyes that are awake at night
(from "The Age of Peace")
As they pulled out her elbow,
indulgence flared up with heat
As the roar died down,
fear seeped into the void
Above it stretched humility with shallow roots
As they broke his knee,
arrogance was sucked
deep into the ground with pus
As the fury subsided,
shame crept into the void
Below it grew a leech as tenacious as tar,
gripping the earth with
a heavy and heavy
and obsessive hold
The suspicious limp swaying of the arms,
the pathetic dawdling of the legs,
no longer carried the plague
The world still looked strange,
but at last it was at peace.
(from "Ignorance of a Butterfly")
And ignorance has the mouth that never gets tired nor rests.
Only ignorance is busy with its mouth.
Ah,
my ignorance do pick on me, do ridicule me.
(from "on the settled life") sitting against a little light in the dark struck across a flash of strange feeling with a sinking heart, I turned my face and there, behind the empty space, remained only the familiar scenery if a stranger was standing there, the sin of unnaturalness would run rampant through the body weakness, ignorance, cowardly hope, cowardly belief, unlike all of those that stays in only slight desires, the sin of unnaturalness would run rampant
(from "One Late Spring Afternoon")
A smell of grilled fish
A scent of approaching summer mixed with dirt
A tiny fly hanging on the inside of a screen door
An empty screen door, a little later when I look back at
Silly lyrics of a popular song
A flow of lethargy instead of vitality
One late spring afternoon that makes everything feel meaningful
(from "The Last Poetry")
The scene was literally being exploded with rage
and the darkness was so murky as to make an ominous color.
Eventually, she pushed the opponent away
and as the door closed, she laid back in bed
and took an unsightly posture.
She seemed to be trying to sleep.
The artificial rays disappeared along with the opponent,
but the murky colored darkness remained in the place.
(from "One Afternoon") lying on the bed where pieces of my lips are scattered, thinking of the short stories of Sait Faik, savoring songs of an inexplicable-named band, wondering if her desperate look in the movie was real,
(from "the red rooms")
in front of my house,
there is a street lined with red rooms
out there are the prurient
with lewd hearts
devils are ceaselessly thrashing within them,
mistaking sordid selfishness for wisdom.